I didn't need help,

I needed you.

I didn't need a light

When I was in darkness,

I needed you

To walk through it with me.

I didn't need a jacket

When there were storms.

I just needed to know

That you would always

Hold the umbrella.

I didn't need a reason

Why I needed you.

I needed you to tell me

That you would never leave.

We shall all have one big get-together
weather permitting,
the men can play cricket
and the ladies
can carry on with their knitting.

There'll be a quiz
boys pitting their wits against the girls
and when the girls win
which is a foregone conclusion
there'll be utter confusion.

Tickets are one pound apiece
with fifty percent going to
pay off the police
for turning a blind eye.

You entered
the gardens
at noon

the sunflower
took a bow
and the rose bended low

it wasn't the fragrance
you wore

tangible
it was the aura
that I saw

love
unsurpassed
gentle and kind

a reinvention of you
will never ever
cross my mind.